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I love movies, but since having children, I don’t go see them very often, or at all, really.\u00a0 I think that’s a normal side effect, and thank goodness for Netflix.\u00a0 But over the holidays, I saw two movies in an actual theater!\u00a0 I think it’s been about five years since I last saw a movie, and I remember that Ryan watched a very tiny James one afternoon while I went with a friend back in 2009.\u00a0 And then I had Rhys, and one thing led to another, and I don’t even know the names of the actors nominated for Oscars any longer.\u00a0 That makes me sad, since that was once my thing, and if I have to make a resolution for 2014, it’s to see more movies in a theater!<\/p>\n

It helps that Ryan recently took me to a very nice theater about 30 minutes from our house, one of those places that serves meals and drinks while you lounge in leather recliners and watch a fabulous film.\u00a0 A girl could get used to that, and I’m hoping we get to make it a monthly event.\u00a0 I should mention, too, that I am super snobby<\/del> picky about what movies I see in the theater, and I have a laundry list of the type I refuse to watch.\u00a0 That makes it hard to go with Ryan or anyone else, and I know it’s a problem, but I just can’t help myself. I don’t do hobbits or action or zombies or James Bond, so I stay home with the boys while Ryan goes with his friends. I used to go by myself a lot before I had children, and I think that’s a great way to watch a movie.<\/p>\n

So Ryan let me pick, and I chose American Hustle<\/a><\/em>, which has a really fabulous ensemble cast, including an almost unrecognizable Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, and Bradley Cooper.\u00a0 The film is set in the late 1970s, and the fashion and music are phenomenal.\u00a0 Amy Adams is very sweet and convincing in her role, and her constant cleavage<\/a> is not at all distracting.\u00a0 I read that she has a no-nudity clause, and this movie literally skirts around it the entire time.\u00a0 Clearly, she burned her bra and is not looking back. \u00a0But it’s Jennifer Lawrence who steals the show with her portrayal of the depressed housewife who sets fires all day long, both literally and metaphorically.\u00a0 I think she will be nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award, and she is so hilarious and pitiful, at the same time. I also really love this song<\/a> from the movie, an Arabic version of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” sung by Mayssa Karaa.<\/p>\n

And then we took the boys to see their very first movie in a theater.\u00a0 I heard and read wonderful things about Frozen<\/a><\/em>, and I thought the boys would enjoy it.\u00a0 James loved the movie and the entire experience, but Rhys was really bored once he ate all the popcorn.\u00a0 I was really disappointed in the movie, too, and I thought it fell so flat.\u00a0 The music was really lackluster compared to other Disney movies I’ve seen in the past (I’m from The Little Mermaid<\/em>, Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, and The Lion King<\/em> generation) and the characters weren’t developed at all, aside from that weird little snowman who showed up halfway through the movie and provided a bit of much-needed comic relief.\u00a0 The animation was beautiful and I loved Elsa’s transformation to a real Snow Queen (her eyeshadow was gorgeous!), but other than that, I felt a lot like the writer of this article<\/a>.\u00a0 I think Disney’s Secret of the Wings<\/em><\/a>, a Tinker Bell movie, is extremely similar (two sisters, lots of snow) and much, much better.\u00a0 Plus, it’s streaming on Netflix right now.<\/p>\n

Still, it was great to visit an actual theater twice over the holidays, and I’m making a list of other movies I want to see.\u00a0 Have you seen any new movies lately?<\/p>\n

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